Atlanta Teacher Fired For Playing Beyonce’s ‘Drunk In Love’ For Sixth Graders

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 05: Beyonce Knowles attends the "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Atlanta Public School said the song Nikki Tuner played was “not [in] alignment with Teacher Keys Standard 9, Professionalism.” A document outlining the charges against Turner said the “song contained profanity, vulgarity, and sexually explicit lyrics.”

What? Beyonce? Vulgar? Sexually explicit?

I’ve been drinking/ I’ve been drinking

Okay, maybe not exactly appropriate for 12-year-olds.

I get filthy when that liquor get into me
I’ve been thinking, I’ve been thinking
Why can’t I keep my fingers off it, baby?
I want you, na na